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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What game do the characters play at the end of the play?
2. What are the stage directions for all of the characters on stage at the end Poem Six?
3. Which character says, "are we ghouls?/ children of horror?/ the joke?"
4. In Poem Six, which characters narrate the poem?
5. Which character relays the main narrative in Poem Three?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the women move to the ends of their rainbow?
2. What is the purpose of Poem Six?
3. How did the lady in red discover God?
4. What metaphors are apparent in Poem Seventeen? What do these metaphors represent?
5. Why does the lady in green call on white women and other men in Poem Seventeen?
6. Where does the lady in blue move to in Poem Eleven? How does she view her new neighborhood? Why does she view it this way?
7. Describe the language and imagery in Poem Thirteen.
8. What do the two songs at the end of Poem One represent?
9. What does dance represent at the beginning of Sequence Four? What does dance represent at the end of Sequence Four?
10. What happens in Poem Twelve? How do the women deal with the situation that arises?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The play is about discovering joy, power, and freedom. How do the characters try to discover these things? What journey do they have to take to overcome oppression and repression? Please use examples from the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
The narrator describes a number of relationships in this play. How does she portray these relationships? Why does she portray them this way? What is significant about these relationships? Please use examples from the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
At the end of the play, the lady in brown's final words are, "This is for colored girls who have considered suicide/but are movin to the ends of their own rainbow." What does this statement mean? What do colored girls have to do in order to move "to the ends of their own rainbow"? What is required of them? Please use specific examples from the book.
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